A few weeks after filing a complaint against Atlanta city officials for implementing a mask order to curb the spread of COVID-19, the governor of Georgia withdrew the complaint.
Gov. Brian Kemp said Thursday afternoon that he would drop the complaint against Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the city council and face the factor in a decree on Saturday.
“Unfortunately, the mayor has made it clear that she will not settle for a regulation that protects the rights of personal owners in Georgia,” Kemp said Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, in California, which is reaching the 600,000 cases shown in COVID-19, the state ordered the closure of a personal school after welcoming students Thursday without a face mask or social estrangement precautions. The school, with about six hundred academics, is now on the state watch list.
And in Hawaii, Gov. David Ige is contemplating the possibility of the house remaining in order for Oahu and could delay the start of a program that allows tourists to stopover while COVID-19 cases are higher in the state. On Thursday, the state reported a new record of 355 infections and a total of 40 deaths.
Here are some developments:
? Figures today: The United States has 5.2 million people infected and more than 167,000 deaths. Worldwide, there have been more than 760,000 deaths and more than 20.9 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.
? What We Read: Critics say they’re avoiding their duties as frontline workers. But as more and more primary schools see reports of new infections, some of the unions’ horrific predictions are coming true.
Latinos are more likely to worry more than whites, blacks, and Asian-Americans about economic unrest related to coronavirus as the country continues to face the ongoing pandemic, according to a new survey.
Considerations are not unfounded: Latinos are more likely to see all other racial teams lose their homework in the following year or have had a decline in the family’s income stream during the following year, according to a survey through the Democracy Fund’s UCLA Nationscape Project.
Robert Griffin, director of studies at the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, said that while some might first think that the disparity is due to the fact that Latinos are higher proportions of other young people or have another middle income, this is not the case. “Communities of color, especially Latinos, seem to be very affected right now,” Griffin said.
– Rebecca Morin
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Friday that the New Zealand government extended closing orders for 12 more days in Auckland, the country’s most populous city, following a new COVID-19 outbreak detected this week.
New Zealand had gone more than a hundred days without a new single CASE of COVID-19, earning foreign praise for crushing the new coronavirus well. That replaced Tuesday when the new cluster was detected in Auckland. Currently, there are 30 cases similar to the epidemic, from which fitness officials say they come and can spread through shipping workers.
“Together, we’ve gotten rid of COVID before,” Ardern said. “We can do it all over again.”
While schools in some states have returned after a months of in-person teaching break, academics, teachers, and in several states are quarantined due to positive COVID-19 cases. According to CNN, more than 2,000 academics, teachers, and five states are quarantined after at least 230 positive cases. And the ABC News count shows that at least 2,400 academics were inflamed or isolated.
In Georgia in Georgia, 1,600 academics were invited to quarantine as cases increased.
“I wasn’t surprised at all,” Jenny Hunter, a nurse and mother of two in Cherokee County, right outside Atlanta, told USA TODAY Jenny Hunter, a nurse and mother of two. “My son said how small some of his categories were on the day because of the quarantined children. It had become a question of when, it is not.
– Grace Hauck and Ryan Miller
Fancy a holiday in Hawaii in September? You may want to reconsider those plans.
Given the immediate increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state, officials are delaying the start of a highly anticipated program that would allow out-of-state visitors to spend a vacation there without quarantine for 14 days by submitting a negative COVID-19 test, Hawaii Governor David Ige said at a press convention Thursday night.
The program, which was scheduled to begin on September 1, was already delayed once, a month ago, due to the accumulation in instances on the continent and in Hawaii.
“If things don’t get better, we won’t have a selection to see any more restrictions yet,” Ige said.
– Dawn Gilbertson
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 killed about 50 million people worldwide, but in some tactics the COVID-19 pandemic worsened, according to a study published Thursday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.
The existing pandemic has been linked to less than one million deaths. But it compares the two months after the first recorded death of COVID-19 in New York, the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic for weeks, to the deadliest two months of the 1918 calamity.
“These are comparable occasions in terms of magnitude,” said Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and lead author of the study. “What our numbers show is that what happened in New York was quite similar to what happened with the biggest fashion pandemic.”
– Jorge L. Ortiz
Cinemas in Mexico City reopened this week after the end of 4 months. Temperatures for film buffs are controlled at the entrance. Guests are required to wear a mask and can only lift it for eating or drinking. And no more than two other people can sit next to each other.
Theatres in the capital have been allowed to open up to 30% of their capacity. Mexico is the fourth largest film market in the world after China, India and the United States.
California ordered the closure of a personal school after it reopened in defiance of a state fitness order aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. Fresno County issued a physical fitness ordinance on Thursday opposite Emmanuel’s schools in the city of Reedley. K-12 school said to close its study rooms until the county got off the state watch list for two weeks.
The school, with about six hundred fellows, allowed fellows to attend categories on Thursdays without mask or social distance. School principals and the superintendent say student progression will be affected if they cannot be taught on campus.
Parties negotiating an invoice to alleviate the devastation of the coronavirus agree at one point: they are at a standstill.
“I need you to see the magnitude of our differences,” House speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said Thursday at a news convention. He pointed to a giant blue poster detailing the big gap between what Republicans and Democrats must pay for priorities. “It’s no wonder we have a big difference because this administration, other Republicans in Congress, have never understood the gravity of this situation.”
On the other side of the Capitol, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, condemned Democrats for clinging to a “completely unreal far-left proposal” and to keep negotiations as “hostages” over “COVID-like ideological problems.”
– Michael Collins, Christal Hayes and Nicholas Wu
Many of the largest catering corporations in the United States are grappling with capacity restrictions on indoor food and seek to attract consumers with takeaways in order to make a monetary disaster.
Home chain owners such as Outback Steakhouse, Applebee’s and The Cheesecake Factory are on a recently updated list of national restaurants that probably won’t pay their debts. When companies fail to comply with loans, they are forced to file for bankruptcy, close sites, or settle occasionally.
One chain, California Pizza Kitchen, has already filed a Chapter bankruptcy claim with the aim of finalizing some establishments.
– Nathan Bomey
While the post-Division I convention postponed autumn sports, the NCAA took the inevitable resolution that there will be no fall championships at the organization’s point in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“We can’t, at this stage, have any NCAA fall championships,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a video interview released Thursday night, adding that the championships were expected to move to the 2021 calendar year.
Emmert said the Higher Council’s requirement that 50% of schools bet on the playoffs would be feasible.
“Unfortunately, tragically, this will be the case this fall,” Emmert said. ‘That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t and can’t resort to winter and spring and say, ‘Okay, how can we create a championship valid for all those students? ‘”.
Eddie Timanus
A frozen bird’s wing pattern transported from Brazil to China tested COVID-19, Chinese officials said Thursday.
But there is no fact that coronavirus can be transmitted by eating or handling food, according to fitness experts.
Health officials in Shenzhen Longgang district inspected imported frozen foods on Wednesday when a frozen bird’s wing surface pattern tested positive for coronavirus, according to a statement from the Shenzhen Bureau of Epidemic Prevention and Control.
On Facebook: There are still many unknowns about coronavirus. But what we know, we share with you. Join our Facebook group, Coronavirus Watch, to get updates on your feed and chat with other members of the COVID-19 network.
In your inbox: Stay up-to-date on the latest news about the USA TODAY coronavirus pandemic. Subscribe to the Coronavirus Watch newsletter here.
Tips to cope: every Saturday and Tuesday we will be in your inbox, giving you a virtual hug and some comfort in those difficult times. Register here for Apart Staying, Together.
Contribute: The Associated Press